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      * ; " * :. "" ; ,- ' .. . ' - MXEs . "" By fte r < uaen « ed Lamm mcaiehard ; icritten on tte first pant Of a t&wme intended for Vie reeeptkn of £ sstt Ss and Drawings Hhutralfre of Shalspeare . /^ 'lake one who stands On the bright verge of some enchanted shore , Where notesftom airy harps , and hidden hands , Argfrom the green grass and the golden sands Par . echoed , o ' er and o ' er , ' As if , the tranced listener to invite Into that "World of light c— : —— ,

      • Thus stood I here , Musing awhfle on these nnhlotted leaves , TOIthe blank pages hrighten'd , and mineear roundmnsic in their rustling , sweet and clear , And wreathes that fancy weaves Entwined the volume—fill'a with grateful lays , And songs of rapturous praise . 'Xo sound I heard , But echoed o ' er and o ' er owShakspeare's name . One lingering note of love , linVd word to word Till every leaf was as a fairy hird , ' "Whose song is still the same : Or each was as a flower , with folded cells For Tucks and Ariels !

      * And visions grew "Visions not brief , though briglit , frosted age Hathfi&'d to rob of one diviner hue , Mating them more familiar , yet more new—These flash'diuto the page ; A group of crowned things—the radiant themes Of Shakspeare ' s Avon dreams . ' Of crowned things—( Rare crowns of firing gems and lasting flowers ) Some in the human likeness , some with win » s—Djed in the beauty of ethereal springs-Some shedding piteous showers Of natural tears , and some in smiles that fell Like sunshine on a dclL

      ' Here Art had caught The perfect mould of llandet ' s princely form , — The frantic Thane , fiend , cheated , lived , methought ; Here Timonhowl'd ; anon , sublimeljr wrought Stood Lear , amid the storm ; There Borneo droop'd or soar * d—while Jacques , here Still watch'd the weeping deer . ' And then a throng Of heavenly natures , clad in earthly vest , like angel-apparitions , pass'd along ;

      The nch-hpped Rosalind , all light and son * And Imogen ' s white breast ; low-voiced Cordelia , with her stifled sighs , And Juliet ' s shrouded eyes . * The page , torn'd o ' , SlieWd Kate—or Yfola— ' my lady tonsue ' - The lost Venetian , with her living Hoor ; The Maiden "Wonder on the haunted shore , Happy , and fair , and young ; TiD on a poor , love-martyr'd mind I look—Ophelia , at the brook .

      * "With sweet Anne Page The bright throng ended for , nntouch'd by time . Came Falstaflj laughter-laurell'd , young in age , " Tfith many a ripe and sack-devoted sage ! And deathless clowns sublime Crowded the leaf , to vanish at a swoop , Like Oberon andhis troop . neve sate , entranced , Malvolio , leg-trapp'd ; he who served the Jew Still with the fiend seem'd running ; then advanced Messina ' s pretty piece of flesh , and danced With Bottom and bis crew—Mereutio , Benedick , press'd points of wit , And Osrick nude his hit .

      'At these , erelong , Awoke my laughter , and the spell was past ; Of tint gay multitude , a marvellous throng , Xo trace is here—no tints , no word , no song , On these bare leaves are cast—The" altar lias been rear'd , an offering fit—The flame is still unlit . 'Oh 2 wlio now bent In humble reverence , hopes oue wreath to bind Worthy of him , whose genius strangely blent , Could kindle ' wonder and astonishment '

      In Milton's starry mind ! ¦ Who stood Alone , but not as one Apart , And saw man's inmost heart ' " '

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      T c . ., C ** 1 OCS CCSTOH IS SICILY . h ^^ yW ^ W aiiexhibition = t 1 : eteeoHectiono ^ vhich iSS E * * » **» DH . i VaTO * afterwards . It might be termed a melancholy parade of death decked out in a profufim , of gay anil splendid colouis . I could JLwfT ^ ^ " ****** ct" l * aosoi * y these islanders had brought themselves to tV . e contemplation of ODjectsonce so da . r to tli « n , but now shrunk into hideous deformity , and seeming , as it were , to ask for a removal from a situation which ill befits them , and which has robbed the grave of its just and long-acknowledged perquisite . This abhorrent spectacle is no other than that of the dead brought from what ought to be their last resting-place , where the dryness of the climate has preserved their flesh from rotting . They were decked out in magnificent attire ; hut death Lad slain their beauty their godlike form was gone , and the w . -m had left upon them disgusting traces of its ravages . "Matres , atque viri , defunetaque corpora vita " In Sicily we sawTnLww ^ *! . !' !! " ! ' . ^^ .,,..,

      We saw what once had been fine young ladies , and elderly matrons , and fathers of families , in dresses fit for a convivial dance ; and we might have imagined that they were enjoying an hour of repose till the arrival of the festive time : But when our eyes caught the parts not veiled by the gorgeous raiment , oh , heavens ! there indeed , appeared dcathin allhisgrisl y terrors . I had never seen any sight in my Ufe , before tl , is , so incongruous so mournftd , so dismal , and so horrifying . These shrunk and withered remnants of former bloom and beauty brought to my mind the exhibitions of stuffed monkeys which we see in our own museums , with this difference only , that the monkeys have glass eves most unnaturally starting from their sockets , v . hilst the hollow sockets of the Sicilian mummies contain a withered substance , discoloured and deprived of all the loveliness that life bad once imparted to it .

      It is said , "if God sends meat , too often the devil sends cooks ; and we are inclined to believe this after reading the following specimen of EOMAX HWHINESS . There are many things in Rome which offend our English feelings , although the natives do not seem to be at all affected by them . Thus all the spouts send down torrents of water from the eaves of the houses into the streets below , inflicting a deluge on those who have not learnedtheartof threading their way successfully through the spaces which intervene betwixt the descending torrents . Many a time have I received on my shoulders this annoyingfall of water . The streets , too , are abominably filthy with offensive matter , causing a nuisance which would not be tolerated for a single day in an English town ; and within the entrance door of many of their

      dwellings there may be seen a pool which loudly caUs for the mop , if the purity of ladies' flounces be an object worthy of attention . Again ; the kitchens " of these Italians appear as though they had never once ! . een whitewashed since the days of Ancient Rome ; Whilst their coalang utensils are , at times , none of the most cleanly . A mend of mine had ordered an omelet for supper . His servant , on going accidentall y into the kitchen , saw the cook preparing it in a kind of thing which I dare not exactly describe . But the reader will understand me when I inform him that the filthy rascal , not having a proper kitchen-pan at hand , had actually been up into the bed-room for a substitute . Our English maid , once expressing a wish for a culinary utensil in order to pour some broth into it , the Italian servant had one in her eye which would just suit . She went and brought the brass pan in which we regularly washed our feet .

      t } yATEMOX is aia ° st devoted Roman Catholic , lne miracles and legends of h ' i 3 church are believed by him with unfaltering faith . At Rome he saw the titnlus , or piece of wood on which was written the inscription over the head of Christ when nailed to the cross—of the genuineness of the article he has not the least doubt ! The benediction annually bestowed on the lower animals in Rome , in the name of St . Anthony , has his warm approbation ! He believes with . Sir Wiilum Bameltos , that the exhibition of the head of St . Januarius has upon the occasion of an eruption of Vesuvius , caused the eruption to cease 2 He relates the pomu and circumstance attending the annual liquefaction of the blood of St . Januarius , of which he was an eve-witness , and declares firm

      Ms conviction of the truth and fact of the " miracle > " For the account of this great Neapolitan festival , we must refer the reader to the book itself . Mr VYaiertox is too good a man , and too sincere m his convictions , for us not to respect his views , however much we may be opposed to them . We may , however , remark , that seeing that Italy is so togrtly blessed , according to Mr . Watemox , with priests , monks , saints , relics , miracles , and the full and undivided sway of the " only true church , " it is passing strange that a country so favoured (?) should be the worst-governed , and its people the most wretched in mind , body , and estate of any people in Europe . Ignorance the most gross , idleness the most degrading , filth the most disgusting , and disease

      the laost repulsive , are the characteristics of the mass of the Neapolitans , as vouched for by nearly all travellers . If the priests can work miracles with tlie blood . of St . Januarius , why cannot they work the miracle so much wanted of making the Neapolitans aa enlightened , industrious , cleanly , and healthy population ? If they cannot do that , of what use is their "liquefaction" and other " miracles , " except to increaseand perpetuate their own wealth and power at the expense of the misery and slavery of the many ? Mr . "Watebtos highly lauds one Bexedict JoseVii Laimie , a religions beggar " who died at Rome in the odour of sanctity , on the 16 th of April , If S 3 ; " he was a Frenchman who , preferring a life of holy vagrancy to labour of any description , took un his

      ouarters at Rome , where he passed his life in wandering about the churches , praying , and living on the alms of the credulous . Mr . Watertox says— "Besemct will probably be canonised , ere long , as the process of his beatification has already commenced ! " Of such materials Rome ' s saints are made ! What was there In a life so spent to entitle this idle and hypocritical or fanatical mendicant to he elevated to the rank of saintship ? "Who will assert that the honest English labourer or artisan , who performs his duties to his family and to society , bearing with toil and battling with adversity , is not a far nobler character in the sightof earth and heaven than such useless vagrants as this St . Benedict ? May our country be > ov ever prescrved from the degrading superstition which Mr . Watekiox seems so ardently to admire . ( To be continued . )

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      ESSAYS OX NATURAL HISTORY . —By Charles Watketcx , Esq . Second Series . London : Longman and Co ., Paternoster-row . ( Continued from . Ote NorOiem Star of May 2-itIi . y Mr . Waiebiox appears to Lave jouraied to Rome not so much for health or amusement as to make jusuself acquainted with the feathered tribes abounding there . Ornithology is with him a passion , to ratify which nearly all other matters are neglected Instead , therefore , of ferreting out antiquities , and visiting the schools of sculpture and painting , he pa-sed his morning 3 in the bird-market . Of this place * v have the following description : —

      THE SIBD-M&RK £ T OF BOMB h lieW in the environs of the Rotunda , formerly the Pantheon . Nothing astonished me more than the quantities of lurds which were daily exposed for sale daring lit season ; I could often count above four hundred thrushes and blackbirds , and often a hundred robin redi rrasts iu one quarter of it ; with twice as many larks , ind otficr small birds in vast profusion . In the course of < : . ¦ . ¦ thy . seventeen thousand quails have passed the Roman « i * . om- ! inuse ; these pretty vernal and autumnal traveler- arc- taken in nets of prodigious extent on the shores « " tie Moliterranean . In the spring of the year and at ' -W doje '» f the summer , cartloads of ringdoves arrive at &r sulk near the Itotnnda . At first the renders were

      Hirwith iuc ; but as we got better acquainted , nothing CvuU surpass their civility , and their wishes to impart t *« j information to me ; and when they had procured a £ : « rare specimen , they always put it in a drawer apart f-i u > . These birdmen outwardly had the appearance of Italian kmditti , bat it was all outside and nothing more ; - "¦> were : •**[ men notwithstanding their uncouth looks , wi ' Ijocxi Christians too , for I could see them waiting at die dWJr < jf the church by half-past four o'clock on a win-: ' 5 uiwmn : ; , to lie ready for the first mass . I preserved tidrty birds , a porcupine , a badger , some shell-fish , and a d » zvn land tortoises , whilst I was in Borne ; and these esi ii-.-d the shipwreck by having beenforwarded to leghorn ,

      -Tuce previous to our embarking at Civita Teeehia : - ¦ : Uiat port . Whilst we were viewing the lofty fragment « a wall which towers amid the surrounding ruins of } rfacalk ' s baths , I saw a hole in it which is frequented V ihe large eagle owl of Europe . A fearless adventurer iia managed to get a young one out of it the year before , '•* i lie had sold it to the gardener at the Colonna palace , « kkrj , t it alive in the pleasure-grounds-, and there I l ^ w it a visit generall y once a week . Another pair of ¦ at * noHc wanderers of night is scid to inhabit the enor-** w outworks at the top of St . Teter ' s . These birds are I f earce iu this part of Italy . \ The bird-market did not , however , occupy our inHor s entire attention . Here is a description of

      PIG-K 1 LUSG AT BOHE . - « you enter Home at the Porta del Popolo , a little on ? right is the great slaughter-house , with a fine stream i : water running through it It is probably inferior to * " « m Italy for an extensive plan , and for judicious ' ^•" gtments . Here some seven or eight hundred pigs ^ killed on every Friday during the winter season . - tfluiKr can exceed the dexterity with which they are ' ^ I-atched . About thirty of these large and fat black J ^ arc dr iven into a Commodious POD , foll& * eJ ly three u W mCT , tad , rnm a sharp skewer in his hand , bent •? <*< : end , in order that it way be used with advantage . ] " r- -- ! nerin the pen these performers , who put jou vastly -s luind of assassins , make a rusli at the hogs , each ^ Jzing one by the leg , amid a general ydl of horror on £ ? part of the victims . 'Whilst the hog and the man are ^ niiglins on the ground , the latter , with the rapidity of ^• • ''¦ wht , pushes his skewer betwixt the fore leg and the

      '"¦ it . quite into the heart , and there gives it a turn or **¦ ' . The pig can rise no more , but screams for a minute <; — , ami tiicn expires . This process is continued till y are all despatched , the brutes sometimes rolling over " * - ¦ ¦ vcicheis , and sometimes the butchers over the brutes , * ' •*» u ydiing enough tostan one ' s ears . In the mean ''' V ' 5 ' - ? « " < auis become fainter and iiunter , and then all / . / *; " * «> the death of the last pif . A cart isiu T . " f l ^ lue carcases are lifted into if , and itpro-... ! " - "idithe street , leaving oue or wore dead hogs r , ' ° ; l 5 oor * of the different pork shops . So bloou api -- ¦ -oatn- ardly , nor is the internal hemorrhage prejudii ^ " : lie "tfat , &t House cannot Tse surpassed in the ' --ar of } w Yacon ^ or iu jj ie soundness of her hams . JV ^^ from Rome toXaples , Mr . Waierto . filt ered a herd of

      • j , ITALIAN BCFTA 1 OES . - ^ t ^' p t " c Me on € Tery day producing something la , and n ? a - the attcm 5 on of m 5 indefatigable sisters-in" r "'W tosivcine £ ufficient occupation in ornithology , Srr « t 4 * ^ 0 mew ' l ° " * spirits when the day % Vs *? Whitl 1 we were t 0 ta 1 ke our departure &r - ajfc ti ! more Wrds on ^ roat from Kome to fn .,,, ^ '"^ * kad observed in the whole of the journey is : n ) , . ^^ Kites and common buzzards , sparrows re \ a ? " ^''^ -I'ovcrs , were ever on the wing in the ~ ' Mle « aJ ' , * > ore Tls " ^ Yfcre ' ^^ S onr horses at 11 •• tt iarc ] " - tils ^ of the roa < 1 > Ilaa a fineopportunitj Tii- ^ -ftjj , 2 ' ^ > arer ylarge herd of Italion buffaloes . •¦^¦ -ilftrj'i ^ c animals have got a bad name for sup' *> i I'jacli A '' ^ Whcn * ^ P * 6556 * J determination to i' ti ,, v _ r ^ 1 " Vas warnoil hv tlie Itnlinns nnt tn fln en ¦

      j 2 >* lifTtr ¦ — ^^ » ^— — —^^———** ^»»^ ^ » w ***^ ^^ 4 ¦ - ' . ^[ j s . ?* _ were wicked brntes , and would gore me ' ' ' * tiie h "' ° ^ "Sltd out a tree or two of easy ascent ^¦ "kiiu . , vT WaS grazin P' advanced close tip to it , 1 —i . a : o ° . one or other of the trees would be a pro-5 !; < ri < r < j ™ i . case tlie brutes should be unruly . They ' «•• .- -. < ln « ana stared at me as though they had : lrvS ' « v li ^ mai 1 b * f 0 re - U po" ms ' l « nn »« -diatdy l ! " ^ -htT !« ! f - - 1 ( ^ into all kinds of antic 111 : W fy ^ Z ^ "dly at the same time ; and the ^ 'KviouM V ° > aild calvcs ' tooko $ ^^ t « ' " : 3 jl -ian trilkT * eanD »' *<» "turn soundand-whole ' nita a hearty laugh against the Italians .

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      THE FAMILY HERALD . Part XXIV . London : G . Bi « gs , 421 , Strand . This part of this excellent publication is filled with most entertaining and instructive matter . The Wandering Jew is brought down to the conclusion of the seventh volume s which terminates with an account of the breaking out of the cholera iu Paris . From the able editorial articles we give two extracts , one from an article on the Religious Warfare in Switzerland , the other from an article on the Maynooth question : —

      TOiatmay be the result of this coutest we will not attempt to divine ; but we think we are well authorised to say that the day is cot far distant ivheu some severe struggle will take place between the two great religious powers of Christendom . The progress of civilisation , of humanity , demands it . The mouths of men are shut in tutra Popish countries . The resident English cannot even build themselves a chapel in the city of Naples or in the city of Rome , to worship God after the fashion of their fetters-, a Protestant cannot preach in public without being seized by the authorities ; innumerable books , political and religious , are proscribed , ana refused admittance into papal territories—books that , perhaps , are calculated to inflame and to perplex the mind , but books , notwithstanding , which open the eves , and lead men out

      of old established prejudices and forms , which , of themselves are gradually dissolving and losing their power over ffie most intelligent , OV the roost active an < J tJionglit-Ail , perhaps also , the most immoral portion , of the community . Governments of this bigoted character arc losing hoia of the convictions even of their own agents , ana their most influential constituents . They stand , like pyramids , by their own weight and antiquity , and by reason of the difficulty of removing them . But as obstacles to the progress of human tlioaglit , as tyrannical powers , which control the foith and opinions of men b y physical force , and forbid even a supply of many interesting , innocent , and instructive materials for thinking on the mysteries of creation and providence , they cannot long he tolerated in their present condition . The volcano

      must burst ere long , and when it bursts , war is one of the forms in which it will exhibit itself to the vulgar eye The American Revolution started a great controversy of popular versus monarchical Governments , which is not yet solved , except to those who take a side , and are pleased to assert that they are satisfied . The French Revolution started a question of philosophy versus religion , whicli still rages , thirty years after the war has terminated . Paine ' s "Bights of Man , " and his "Age of Reason , " were but biblical types of what was going on in the national mind when the war was raging , and what was destined to go on when the military combatants had sheathed their swords and retired to their quarters . The war still rages in the human mind ; these rights oC man are every day more and more discussed , in public and in

      private . Before the time of the American and French Revolutions , public discussions were comparatively unknown : the debates of Parliament were not reported ; popular meetings were seldom held to discuss any public question ; newspapers were small in size , and few in number . There could be no great war respecting international subjects , for want of material ? . But the revolutionary war , by the increased excitement which it gave to the mind , supplied these materials , and uvged on the controversy . Xor has the controversy which that war stirred up into a flame ever ceased to this day . It lias produced our own Reform , aud all its consequent expertments on the old constitution of England—experiments

      which have not satisfied , and can only lead to some ottiei crisis , of which war at home or abroad is the outward sign . Thwreis food for war in the world yet ; and the increased activity of party spirit is notmcertaiu sign of itapproach . The Catholic nations are very weak , or thej would have bctu at war with us long ago . France is neutral power—Roman Catholic in name , but so anti Roman that the Pope excludes almost every populai French publication from liis ilomvfriows . It would sifli with Protestants in politics , but it hates or is jealous o England . Its very hatred of England preserves it neutrality . IJad passions suppressed are not appeased and if the soldiers have not yet begun to fight , the peopl are already in arms , and evvn now all England and Scoi

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      . ^^__^__ ^^^ — ** J-I JLl V 11 HJ land is excited upona Roman Catholic question . After the fear of PuSey 1 Sm is partl y hushed , now comes the ^ ear of Maynooth priestcraft . Meetings are held , comnutteesoro formed , petitions m-e signw 5 , compkints are uttered Jou . l long and deep ; the alarm bell is rung throughout the laud . We are not fighting , vulgarly speaking , but we are at war , notwithstanding ; and fte Swiss cantons , which are now engaged in a bloody strife about the Popish question of Jesuitism , are merely exhibiting after another fashion that very operation of religious passion which is at present more silently and metaphysically going on amongst ourselves ^ f fHcitC ( 1 u P Roman Catholic motion . Afar

      The opposition to the Maynooth graut is immense ; and its energy aud its ubiquity reveal an important fact in the history of the present times . They give a splendid man :-festation of the life of Protestantism in England and Scotland , and its unconquerable hatred of Papal dictation and Roman priestcraft . It is alcssou to all Christendom . It is the proof of a great fact—a fact that seemed to want a proof—to allay the fears of Protestants on the one hand , and to disappoint the fond expectations of Romans on the other . The proof has been given ; and , as the Times well observes , there has been no such exhibition of Pvotestant feeling since the foundation of the Protestant constitution in 1688 .

      The present part concludes the second volume of the Family Herald—a , good opportunity is therefore at present afforded to new subscribers to commence taking this publication , which is one we can warmly reccommend to them .

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      * n > i \ OTAK . " *"" —^ ~ Sotvh ° J * he , ^ ° PIe called Christians give you different aortnne , don't listen to them . Coals and gridirons ' tJST- H lklt tllC rati 0 " atl ( 1 l * nefiCent liW ° « Wi , « ? 1 J 0 U ara nevtv t 0 Noy yourself ; that iSasVS inSSwi ; . " ° *** t 0 intCrprfit >™ lookS « S •?** ° tllcbl « e lines in a ledger , to mmmtm «« w . . 7 ^

      ancl ennobled Nature . I , for mvV"V »• PUIUJCd ss ^ iSS ? J ^ Ats affa ^ S ^ feclmgs o reverence and gratitude as the talk of X ? * r . SbgguBUMloon , who was howling pordWoHtml ""^^¦ ^ toaot b ** present sittTnguud * him . It is very probable that he thinks his selnonn much finer thing than a fine landscape , and « 'Si s and how a picture should move anj " mortal soul . But " SS 5 KSSKSK

      w ^ & « m S . W ^ 7 ° U SCC h ° he has di ^ osed « f Poor Strumfeder , thank your stars that picture-gallery doors zssr ° * ^' - ™» £ & "P . S . By the way , there is one point in StSis's admirable letter which is not altogether supported by his usual logic . ' There ' s no reason , he says , ' if the Roynl Academy were opened , why every public exhibition through the country and the theatres at night should not ba opened too V To this it must certainly be answered , that if the museums in Birmingham , Manchester , &c , were open on Sunday afternoons , they would no doubt

      occasion in the provinces the dreadful depravity against which Stiggins . protests in London . " 13 ut because an Exhibition was open on Sunday afternoon , it docs not , therefore , follow that a theatre should ue open on Sunday night . No , dear Stiggins , that is not put with your usual mildness of argument . The garden ott jt . James ' s Park is open till dusk , and the ungodly walkthere-but it is not , therefore , open all night . You might go out for a walk of an afternoon , but it does not follow that you should Btay out all night . No S > t . ggy , I would not allow any one to say that of you . And our admirable legislature has provided that only the gin-shops should bo opened on Sunday—not the wicked theatres . "

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      TIIE LONDON ENTERTAINING MAGAZINE . Part VI . London ; Cousins , 18 , Dukc-strcet , Lincoln's-inn-fields . The exciting tale of MiSda , by Etjoexe Sue , is drawing to a close , and will be concluded in the next part of this truly-entertaining periodical . The remaining contents of this part are , as usual , interesting , . and cannot fail to please .

      THE LAST DAYS OF THOMAS HOOD . The following is abridged from a notice by Mr . S C Hall , in the Art-Union— "Ms . Hood ' s existence was a Jong disease rather than a life ; yet Ids temper , unembittered by continual pain , remained ever cheerful and kindly , turning , to the very last , his own sad suflering into jests , and forcing those who wept over ksagony , fierce as it was ( tillhe was overtaken by the last dull sleep that continued lor three days preceedrag his death ) to smile at the witticisms ot uis eonmts , however strangely mingled with the consciousness of his situation , ami his solemn forecast ot the rapidly approaching hereafter . Nor were such ternble contrasts referred , for Ills ( lcath-bcd only . Even when the ' Song of a Sluvt' was knockin * at

      every heart m Great Britain , its author was panting tor breath ; and soon after he was confined to his bed , and literally propped up by pillows to write wit . And so he struggled on , through successive paroxysms of illness , till the last few months found him working amidst the very crisis aud beatings of heart disease ( more than once even in the intervals of delirium !) at the monthly chapters of his last novel—doomed to remain , like his life , a great fragment . But it is all over with him now . He is releasedfromlabours never remunerated in proportion to the pleasure they gave and to the enormous profit they produced to others , seldom perhaps thought of by thosswhose hearts they opened , aud whose care they seemed to beguile . Latterlhis friends

      y had beeu agonized by his terrible lament— 'I cannot die ! I cannot die ! and they could not but be thankful to lay him , on the 10 th of May , in a calm grave , at Kensall-green . It will not , we arc sure , be long before a monument is raised to hisniemory ; and there are hearts enough in England tp remember that his widow and children have but the small pension bestowed by Sir It . Peel , whose letter , m words that did equal honour to the Minister and the y » oct , conveyed his rr ^ vet that the grant was necessarily so scanty , and a request that he might be permitted to make tho personal acquaintance of one with whose works he was intimately acquainted , and whose talents and character he had long appreciated

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      llic two following letters appeared in the Times last week : —

      NO . 1 . " Sir , — -Can you assist me in the following dilemma ? "Is a visit to the exhibition of tlie Royal Academy a rational , Christian-like , and proper amusement for the afternoon of Sunday , aftev attending divine service in the morning—aye or no ? "If it be , why am laud my class excluded on that day ? " If it be not , why were 'their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge , Prince George , the Here , ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mccklenburgh Strelitz ( attended by Mr . Edmond Mildmay ) , and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , accompanied by the Marchioness of Douglas , and attended b y the Baroness de Strumfedef , " as per Court Circular , admitted ! "Yours , &c ., « a Ciehk , "Who never leaves business until dusk . " NO . II .

      " Sib , —In answer to 'A Clerk , ' applying for the opening of the Iloyal Academy on tho Sunday , I would observe , that the titled personages whom he names ( if they were admitted on that day ) violated their duty to God and society by going , but in no way justified an act iin . moral and indecent in itself ; and that if once this bamei should be broken , there can be no reason why every public exhibition iu the country , and the theatres at night , should uot equally lie open also , as in Paris . "I am , sir , yours obediently , " Ose ot toe People called Christians . "

      The documents were attentively read by our exalted chief , and were observed to affect the venerable Mi \ Punch in a most extraordinary manner . The latter letter especially excited him ; and he was awake all night after it had appeared , tossing about in his bed in a fury , and exclaiming , " Stiggins—it ' s Stiggins—I know it is—the rascal ! to say the Iloyal Family is immoral and indecent , and insult the Grand Duchess Stephanie , and the Baroness de Strumfedcr !"

      The next morning lie arose quite calm , and calling for pens and paper , addressed the following ironic letter to the Clerk who wrote to the Times : — " Mt . deib , THO 0 GH unknown FiiiEND , —I have read your letter with deep feelings of sympathy . I know your condition—I know that you live ia Chelsea or Camden Town , with four cluWven and a loflger . You work in that little runt of a garden of yours for half-an-hout or so before breakfast : and having hurriedly swallowed yrmrmeal , in company with Mrs . Clerk and tlie famil y , and having kissed the four pair of red cheeks , all shining with bread aud hutter , trudgs off for a three-milewalk to business in the city , where nine o'clock finds you at your desk over the ledger . At seven or eight you are back to that little dingy cottage of yours , and must be glaa to get to bed early in order to be ready for tha next day's labours .

      "How can you have leisure to improve your mind under these circumstances ? X [ y dear , worthy fellow , you must be in a state of lamentable ignorance ignol ranee , indeed ! 0 , you poor miserable sinner , not to know how ignorant you are : and to dare for to go for to make such an audacious proposition as that about being allowed to sec pictures on a Sunday ! " To look at pictures on Sunday is a' violation of your duty to Heaven and society . ' It is an act 'immoral and indecent . ' ' One of tlie people called Christians' has let you into that secret , in a neat and temperate letter , in rcily to yours , which the Times publishes—and a veiy liberal and kind CluisUan he must be who warns JOUi " It is ii mistake to fouty u >« t an examination of works of ait , though they may ennoble aud improve your mind on Saturday , is not an odious and wicked action on Sunday . Baroness Stvumfcder may do as her ladyship likes . As for tlie Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , her Iloyal Highness is a Frenchwoman by bivtib , and a Princess living in a country where sad errors prevail—this

      dreadful one among others : —of admitting the public to recreation after tlie hours of devotion on the Sabbath , and flinging the galleries anJ museums open to the poor who can see them on -no other day . " Make up your mind , my lad , and console yourself for living in the only country in Europe where you are debarred from such godless enjoyments . Suppose that it has been the custom of all ChrUttndom ( and of England until pious Oliver Cronnvdl came aud put an end to the diabolical superstition ) to recognise Art as not ' incompatible with religion , and to believe that harmless happiuitcn

      ness was dedand designoiltobe a pavt of the weekly holiday . We are right , depend upon it—and all the worH for ages and ages is wrong . Woe betide the unfor- tunatesinners ! I can ' t think of a company of French j or German peasants ( I hare seen many such ) uiucing ; unto an dm-lree , with Jfo » 8 ;« , r Jc cUrc looking on , j very likely , without a feeling of hom > r at their crimij MHty-tempweO , however , with pleasure in remember . ; wg that we in England arc free from such crime- and that I am not involved , like these countless myriads of human leiiigs , in the commission of deadk sin

      • Jsomc of these unfortunate creatures believe it is wrong to cat inuttou-clions on a Friday-ami the wretched bigo ; s wll tell you that h is immoial and indecent , and an insult ; to Heaven aud society- to do such a thing . Blind aud miserable superstition ! You must not amuse onrself

      I j on Sunday with plctnr « -but 3 S for ci 1 Ops on a I I why , cat as many of them , my good friend , r . s you can ' UUy , * " : ' , J f I ' " U iH V 8 hl of 1 OU t 0 ' spwMate with that ignorant arrogance of yours , win " , you mistake for good ; sense but Khuh is only monstr ., . - , pride and seli-wmccif , ' £ « t , w ^ VV ? --authmteitisa crime . to eat chops on a Friday , I TOR ' l force him to eat them , ; but . nthename of common >! nSe let me imvemTae . ' If ^ " ^ r : ^^ ^ ^ "oss of Cambridge and Baroness Strung that "

      ; or then , 5 :, ha ^ In 3 j petures on biinday , what man of tho people calle , i Chl >! tens lias a right to doom me to m-mm fer ,. , , Be j \ , u content that another should ii , j KC f 0 ,. -aid later and the other titled personages , as you sec . Doyou , flunk he does not know what , is good for , or wiiat will 1 hereafter happen to , such a poor miserable cre-i ( urea « you ? I " Xo , my worthy friend—let this man lay down the law ' and be you contented to believe him . He must be right ' : : lie says 'J : e is one of the people called Christians , ' If

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      ^—»————»—i —»——« in consequence of which a very considerable stir has taken place m the shipping interest , the few persons to whom the secret is known taking every available vessel , at rates ranging from £ i to £ 4108 . per ton , "to be put into the ship ' s boats , " which is said to be satisfactory to the owners . O . \ the Use op Soap-suds as a Maxuiie . — About twelve months ago I had at my command a tank that received nothing but the suds that came from the laundry : I thought I would try its effects . The first thing I tried it on was hyacinths in pots , and the result was most astonishing . I tried some of Potter ' s liquid guano at the same time , as an experiment , but found the suds most beneficial . Manv nersOES

      wlio saw the hyacinths , said they never saw finer . I used it alternately with pure water . I also tried it with strawberries that were forcing , awl though the plants were previously very bad ones , the result was very satisfactory . French beans in pots were also a great deal improved by its use , and I think if itwere extensively employed it would be found very beneficial to a great many plants . It must be remembered that it was not used from the wash-house , but was allowed to run into the tank , which was always nearly full ; by this means it may be used without the least injury to any growing plant requiring such stimulus . —J . Morris , in the United Ganhnen Journal .

      Oats—The oat is , within its range , one of the most useful grains with which man is acquainted . I he mealy matter of it contains less starch and mucilage than that of barley : and not above a fifth part of the saccharine matter ; but it contains nearly one half move gluten : so that , as food for man , the oat torms a sort ot intermediate between wheat and barley , being less nutritious than wheat , more nutritious but less . light and digestible , than barley ; and rather more stimulant than either . Of oats , or oat "rasses there are about twenty-five species , some of them amongst the most troublesome and destructive weeds with which the fanner has to contend . Onlv one species is cultivated , but there avo , as in tho case of the other grams , a great many varieties of it . The older writers , indeed , describe anotherthe naked

      , oat , or pilcprn , as having been once in abundance and repute m some parts of England . The grains ot that oat were without awns ; and it is said to have got its naineofp / fcorn , or peelcorn , from the circumstance of its thrusting clear out oi the husk and thus not requiring to be " shelled" at the mill , as is the case with , all the oats in cultivation . Of whatever country the oat may have been a native , it mtl ^ t have been of a country that is vatW cold . The oat does not thrive well in a lower latitude than about 48 ! degrees , there being little of it south of the parallel of Pans . In the north , however , it is highly important . It thrives upon almost any soil , and stands almost any degree of cold ; and iV it can be ripened before the frost sets in . the more bleak and

      Darren tlio soil on winch it grows , the finer is its , X ° . ur \ , ^ ye are four or five varieties of the oat . wwchyield differently ; but the one which is best adapted for human food , though not the most productive , is the old white oat , which was so long the principal article of food among the poor in this country , especially the northern parts of it . Where wheat can be readily obtained oats are not much used for bread , but tbey _ are used largely in the imUn « of horses , with which they are supposed to agree better than any other species of grain . Oats are also sometimes employed in brewing and in distilling but are considered inferior to barley for those purposes . llYE .-Rye is a grain plant cultivated in this country and in the northern parts of Europefor food

      , but the quantity of it grown in Britain has become much less since agriculture was more improved and the land brought into a better state of cultivation . The meal of rye contains nearly the same quantity of mucilage and starch as that oi" oats , about twice the quantity of sugar , and a fourth more « luten It is , therefore , better adapted for fermented bread ; but it very soon becomes acid or sour : indeed it undergoes the acid fermentation in the process of baking ; and therefore , though rye bread is rather pleasant from its acid taste , and has a gentle action on the bowels , it is not either so nourishing as that ot the other grains , or so easily digested . The soil upon which rye succeeds best is dry sand :

      hommImgly it is the principal grain in the countries to the eastward of the Baltic Sea , and to the south of the Gulf of Finland ; it is grown also in some of the light sandy districts on the eastern coasts of Scotland and in tlie northern parts of England , though more sparingly in the latter . The peculiar properties of rye arc understood to lie in the husk , or in that part of the grain which is immediately in contact with it ; for coarse as the common black bread or ruck of the Russians is , which is made of the rye , husk and all , it has a flavour which is not found in the fine ruck of the Russians , which is made of rye flow ; and if the latter were not sweetened by some addition , such as honey , it would be very unpalatable .

      Tiffiscii Pioucnraa . —At the last , meeting of tho Highland Agricultural Society , My . Aitchison , of Drummore , read an account of " Experiments with trench-ploughing" made by Mr . J . Proudfoot , Pinkie IM , neav MVBselbnrgh . Mr . Proudfoot has been in the practice , for several years past , of trench-ploughing a considerable quantity of land every year for green crops , and last year he trench-ploughed twenty acres . The trenching consists of one plough goiii " before and taking a furrow of 6 inches in depth , aiu another following in the same furrow and taking S or 0 incheamore , so that together they reach a depth of H or lo inches , and which is accomplished in just double the tune required for common ploughing llic trench-ploughed land requires no workuV m spring excepting harrowing or rolling before the planting of the potatoes , and it is this non-stivrine of ft ! fiff ? : * - > **¦• P » udfoot ' B opinion , «« wiusiu vi

      ., mu « Keeping me drought out ot his ground , which is a light soil vesting on a "ravelly subsoU . and preventing the potatoc failure in it for upwards of twenty years . Last year he planted 0 acres ot potatoes on the trench soil , and G acres on land wovkcA in the ordinary manner in sprint , the entire 12 acres being equally wellmamired : ami though the trench-land was eight days later in being planted , the potatoe stems were as early above ground were much stronger in the stem , and yielded 14 bolls , of 4 cwt . each boll , per Scotch acre , more . The trenched ground yielded G 2 bolls , and the other 4 S bolls , per acre Scotch , and both were a good crop and ol good quality . Sir a . Suttie , having alluded to the practice of mauuring land in autumn for the turnip crop . Mr . Aitchison mentioned that his turnips , which were raised on manure that had been applied m autumn , rotted much more readily by the month ot January , when stored , than those which were manured at the usual time .

      _ Corn Rents akd LEASES .--The following resolution was unanimously agreed to at the last monthly meeting of the Halesworth Farmers' Club : — " That a more general adoption of corn rents , in connection with permanent and modified leases , would place the tenant-farmers of this district in a comparatively better position than when under the liability of fixed money payments . " Prodigious Ox . —One of the finest specimens of beef ever witnessed in Birmingham , was exhibited about a fortnight since at the back of Mr . Holder ' s , Rodney Inn , Coleshill-street . For neiitnessand symmetry of . form , and fatness , tlie ox was the best ol" its species ever slaughtered in that town . The noble animal was of the Dunham breed , by Mr . Arbuthnot's bull Despot ; was bved by Mr , Baldwin , of

      "Wcston-QU-Ayoiu ncai' Stvalfovd-on-AYon , ami fed by Mr . Newbold , of Baginton , near Coventry . Tlie a , YQSS weight was 20271 b ., or 253 at . 3 lb . A great portion of this extraordinary beast was sent to the metropolis . Bojie ? t Sulphuric AciD .-Mr . P . Davis , oi Milton House , near Pembridge , Herefordshire , has Sfhfi ^ fT ? co . uneilof tte ^ yal Agricultural Society « S ° w ? i 0 W 1 ^ statet » e « fc of results :- " 25 th April , ! w »^"

      KCt aSKSEVa fiftfc ! pS ^ SSal « turned over two or three times tLTS aS then drilled along ^ i tt tiSSd ; SlttSSSt SI a fair crop of common turnips off a piece of pSland without other manure , and at a- cost of oX&J t \' per acre » The council ordered their thanks to t returned to Mr . Davis for this communicat on , with a request that he would further favour them witha statement ot Ins previous cropping of the field , as well as ot the quantity of his crop when freed frem tops and tails .

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      FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS , For the Week commencing Monday , Juno drd , 1844 . [ Extracted from a Diary of Actual Operations on five smallfavmson the estates of Mrs , Davies Gilbert near Eastbourne , in Sussex ; and on several model iarms on the estates of the Eavl of Dartmouth at Skuthwaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell of Farnley Tyas , neav Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . lwo school farms at Willinsdon and EasMenn « f

      hye acres each , conducted by G . Cruttemlen and John Harris . Second . Two private farms , of five or six acres : one worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John Dumbrcll—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevmgton—all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Severalpvivatemodelfarms near the saiueplace . rheconsecutiveoperationsinthesereports will enable the curious reader to compare the climate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England The Diary is aided by "Notesand Observations from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for the tune and season , which we subjoin

      " It is a very pleasant sight to see children engaged in useful aud healthy labour upon a spot of ground which they can call their own : they shall he kept apart from the vice and folly of the young men of the city J ' Note . —The school farm are cultivated by boys , who in return for three hours' teaching in the morning , give three hours of their labour in the afternoon for the master ' s benefit , which renders the schools semsurpoitroo . We believe that at Famly Tyas sixsevenths of the produce of the school farm will he assigned to the boys , and onc-soventh to tlie master , ivho will receive the usual school fees , help the boys to cidtivate their land , and teach them , in addition to reading , writing , &c , to convert their produce into bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , which at Christmas may be divided , after paying rent and levy , amongst them in proportion to their services , and beinadethmndirectl y to reach their parents in « wav the most grateful to their feelings . ]

      SUSSEX . Monday— Wiuingdon School . Boys digging , and manuring for potatoes after tares . Eastdean School Boys digging , sowing turnips , watering them with liquiU manure , planting potatoes and cabbages for winter . Piper . Hoeing amongst the potatoes . Bumbrell . Weeding oats . Tuesday—Willingdon School . Boys diggin" manuring , and planting potatoes after tares . ° Eastdean School . Boys rolling barley and oats , weeding peas hoeing potatoes and carrots , sowing the garden with lucerne . Piper . Setting potatoes . Bumbrell . Weeding tares , paring off clover stems . Wedxesday— Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes after tares . Eastdean School . Boys emptying pails , and mixing the contents with mould , wceif mg tares , and getting forward potatoes . Piper Hoeingandmending lucerne ; had but one slight

      shower of ram this three months at Eastdean JJumbrell . Paring clover stems , burning , aud dig - ging . rnuRsiUY— Willingdon School . Boys planting potatoes . Eastdcaii School Boys digging , planting potatoes , planting cabbages after rye , and mending with liquid . Piper . Digging where the tares grow , and setting potatoes . Dumlrdl . Paring clover stems , and digging . Friday— Willingdon School . Boys digging the second tune for turnips . Eastdean School . Boys sowing turnips between tlie carrots , transplanting turnips , hoeing mangel wurzel , weeding oats and barley . Piper . Setting potatoes . Dumbrell . Paring clovei

      stems , digging , and spreading ashes , &ATUHDAY— Willingdon School . Boys diggm * the second time for turnips . Eastdean School . Boys Hoeing potatoes , cleaning out pigs , pails , and school room . Pjper . Emptying the tank , and mixing liquid with dung and mould . Dumbrell . Digging

      m . 7 „ , , JOBKSHIHE . Slmthmte School iromniuc to ten bom terakioi ' Bods , burning wicks , making a tank . C Varlev carrying manure ridging for turnips , and sowing them . James Bamford , sowing tares , preparing tor turnips , earthing potatoes . John JBamfarri delving , limins cabbasos . ««««!« ., COW-PEEDISG . Willingdon School . Cows fed on tares and clover Dumbrell ' s . Two cows grazed in the pasture the whole week , stall-fed mom and even on tares till Wed nesday , afterwards with clover . Heifer stall-fed on tares . Slaithwaite School Cow stall-fed on rye and tares C . Varlei / s , on mown grass .

      NOTES AND OBSERVA TIONS . Topobbbuxg Potatoes .- [« Saltpetre increases the vital action , n man j it doth the same in plants-After the breaks or intervals in the rows are filled up the application of saline top dressings will naturally commence . The following are the best mixtures for such purpose , and are deduced from the results of numerous trials which have been ingeniously tabulated by Professor Jolmstone . They may be applied to the crop when the plants are five or skiilches high , by scattering them upon the ridges , previous to a shower of rain . " No . 1 . —For one acre of manured potatoes . Saltpetre , * cwt . ; sulphate of soda , f cwt . ; sulphate of maunesia , il- cwt . l No . 2 . —Saltpetre , f Cwt . ; gypsum , 1 cwt . ; salt , 1 A su $ iate of magnesia , ? mt . JNo . o . —Aitrate of soda , lewt . '; gypsum , 1 cwt . Sins ' ° buShds ; salt ! ^ Wttern- 20

      | W-WKMnseg Fon " Tinrnps .-flloe your S turnips while and whenever the sun shines . »] -Ho e early to Kf *? f « ' ? nd acate t 0 P dressings upon £ w ltu - them > ln » ue < Kately before a sho / cr ; ttenni ? W , ° [ ter ' AvD 1 illl ( w ™> P ««» to StTtJSJf * * thesaline ffl& *™ * wa ^^ i ^ BKKSr ^ ^^ SS ^ - nitrate of soda mixed with 1 cwt . ofgypsuni < vl"iStitv JY offic « wy a * such maHurinra . i , . < l u ! } ntlt J of dung may be diminished in nronortion to he value of the saline substances intSced before the seed , and in subsequent ton S ™

      man a ™ gs be well mixed with abundance of coal ashes , to tickle , plague , and drive away insects New Discovery op Mandbe in ApRicA . ~ The doubt which has hitherto existed of the finding of nitrate of potass and nitrate of soda on the African shores Ins within the last few days boen entirely removed by the arrival of information giving its positive locality ;

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      A Good Reason . —Everybody is astonished at the little progress made by the railway committees . In tlu ' s , however , there will appear not much to wonder at , when it is considered that railways must be made in right lines , and that the House is little accustomed to straightforward p vqceedi « gB . . r rpun / fa Disputes op Doctors . —A . quarrel Imsvarisen between the surgeons and general practitioner which £ > U" James Graham proposes . to step uniantl settle . We recommend the Home Secretary , to . let > the prolession alone ; for " Who shall decide when doctors disagree r-ilM . HioniY Apmopriate . —Ireland , we understand , at the dictation of Daniel O'Conncll , is about to repudiate the shamrock , and instead of it to assume , for a national emblem , the aspen , as typical of eternal agiaft

      JH " ^^ urged as excuse ioi the ira algar fountains , that thev are at all «« ntBTOB durable Our own opinion ^ , that they are altogether unendurable . —Ibid . Poon Crsatuke!—We have often heard the ^ htcv Isle called "Poor Old Ireland . " Poor Ireland " seems , is so very old , that she has now lost the use of her members . —Ml , Very Simple . —A gentleman last week became a member of the Royal Humane Society , under the impression that he could have one of their drags to « o in to Epsom races . —Ibid . The " Piaohe . "— " My dear , " said a wife to her husband , " did you ever read of theplncruo in London V " No , I don't want to read it . ' its enough to have a plague in my own house !"

      A Brotiiehly Cojuecture . —The editor of the Chi ' cinnatian says he kas been in a " sea of trouble" for several days past , on " several accounts . " ProbaWy the longest " account" was his tailor's . Glory ' . —Near St . Sevier lives an old soldier with ialse leg , false arm , glass eye , complete set of teeth , nose of silver covered with a substance resembling nesh , and silver p late replacing pavt of his skull—he was a soldier under Napoleon , and these arc his trophies of glory ! . A Genius . —At a meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society , lately held in Nottingham , we learn » 'om the Mercury , that a motion was seconded by a Mr . James Everettof York" in a speech oi'

      extra-, , ordinary luunow , sparkling -with points of wit . and abounding in the varied tropes which Air . E . is so well known to have under perfect command , and w j iieh his exuberant fancy pours out like the waters ol an exhaustless fountain . His genius , unfettered as the antelope , bounded over hill and dale , paused and gazed at every prospect , snuffnd the gale , and dashed along again , exploring every nook , and rock , and covert of an almost boundless range of thought , and making an amaain * variety of topics culled from political , social , and ecclesiastical economy , contributing to the argument and illustration of a missionary speech . "

      Beiiisd the Scenes at a Solicitor ' s . — " 1 say , Iluntham , there ' s some stuff in my room that we may get something out ot ' . " •' ¦ Who is it V " That Mr . CoycrJy , of Devonsliiro , who signed the bond to Snatclutt , " " More fool he ! But that ' s his affair . Has he got the money ? " "Mo ; but he has got a u—u line estate , I know ifc well , but lie doesn't suspect that . lie is in a devil of a funk , and is ready to give his ears to keep the matter snug . " " But will his estate bear bleeding ¥ ' said Mr . Iluntham . Oh , it ' s as good as gold ! And what do you think ?—upon my soul , it ' s like tho game walking into one ' s not—ho wants us to raise the money for him ! " " I hope you told him we couldn't . " " Of course I did . I tickled him nicely , and made it a favour to trv

      aiul that s what I am supposed lo conic to you for . It would be apity to let him slip through our ' tin ers , tor there lie sits like a lamb to be slaughtered , " and we may do what we like with him . " " Is there no way of making a fatter bill out of him before we get him the money ? Couldn't you egg him on to dispute the bond ' s" "Impossible ; you know he confessed udgment , and signed a warrant of attorney , five months ago . There ' s nothing to do now but to issue execution . " ' ¦ Suppose , " said Mr . Iluntham , nieditatingly , " we were to have him grabbed and locked up ? " " That might make him desperate , and then he would get into Playfair ' s hands , and we should lose the chance . " " Damn that follow , 1 say ; he ' s always spoiling the game forothcr people . " What the devil ! does he think that attorneys can live by' settling actions ! ' No , no ! when two fools want to go to law , let ' em go at it hammer and tongs—never ston ' cm I

      iiutthu very first thing that dirty dog Piayfair does , is to try to reconcile the parties , awl recommend them not to go to law ! Not go to law ? Why , what would become of all of us if people didn't go to law ? wn M ; u'P lot Mayfair is tho curse of the profession ! \\ ell then , if that ' s the case , we had better hook our man at once . You say he'll bear bleeding V " Aa much as you please , lie ' s in a pretty sweat , though he tries to seem cool ; but I sec through him . He'd give his eyes to get out of the mess quietly . " " Come , tlicn . letns go at him together , " said HuntUam ; andniuul , you're to do tlie ; blarney . 1 shallsay it ' s a thing impossible—that we must proceed to execution , and all that . " The Cuau . vcteuwiic ot " Party . "—Speaking of tlie Great Captain ' s influence in the House of Lords , Ellenborough bouncingly exclaimed , " 01 the Duke has power to carry anything—he could carry tho mokcmext ! ' ¦ " Possibly , " replied Normanby ; " that is a party column—it leans to one side' "

      XIKES AND DISLIKES . : l Towards the Uight Honourable Baronet Tee ] , If » t , 'iti' ( I , nay , affection , I certainly fuel , " In debate , exclaimed Dublin ' s Kocorder ; " But as for the Cumberland ttaronct , Graham , lly foeliiigs , I own , are bj no means tlie same—M } ' love doesn ' t stray o ' er the bonier : " Plkasurk of Place . —Colonel Rowan lias returned h-om his jishing excursion . These police commissioners , u they have not a very lucrative , have a very cflsi / ottice . Messrs . Rowan and Mayuc " go to-play " three months alternately in the most agreeable manner imaginable . Cool . —Mr . Daivdson , bwmght before the senate of ot Michigan for contempt , left Now York before the case was disposed of , leaving a letter directing the senate to send tho " reprimand" after him—through the post-office . " Rather xot , tiusk yob ' . "—What kind of per soual service is that for whicli persons are never expected to appear grateful ?—The service of a writ .

      A Reason against Annexation . —At an anti-annexation meeting in New York State , one gentleman from the country objected to the annexation of Texas on tl \ c ground that there were crocodiles there He didn t " want ' cm brought into this country . " Ax Editor on jus IIioii IIobsk . —The Northern Herald , speaking of the Maynooth grant , has the following eloquent ebullition : — " Compared with such impiety as this , it would be a comparatively insignificant piece of profane blasphemy to mouth the heavens , and tell their Maker that bis material sun , spreading life , and warmth , and glory , throughout creation , is a curse , and seek to exclude its rays from heir dark and vile habitations 1 "

      " no oo !" hnu so tne Queen will not appear in , At least this year , the Isle of Erin . What think you theu of Feel ' s Vftill prestige , Theso tii'st iVtiUa of ins fnnva peace-message ? Instead of oil upon the ocean Of Irish clamour anil commotion , And smoothing Queen Victoria ' s sstil To tlio green shores of Iuisfoil , * Her voyagd bus been mauc uncertain A . 5 aught belriwl the future's curtain ! That vaunted " message , " then , 'tis plain , " Has failed at present in the inaiii—Has proved no halcyon to the stonis , But rather wears the petrel ' s form !

      The laii : lln , Stiuckuxd . —Tiic Gfole , which first announced tho death of this lamented comedian , having informed us of that fact , added— " During Mr . Strickland ' s unavoidable absence , his pare lias been sustained by Mr . Webster . " The Joium Water .. —Her Majssty having sot the example , which is of Ramish erigiu , of h&viug the Iloyal infants baptized with water from the River , Jordan , there is every probability oi" the Iloyal whim being imitated pretty generally by the aristocratic portion ot the community . The water , we lcam by our daily contemporaries , used at the christening of tne infant son of Viscount and Viscountess Villiers , on Saturday kat , at St . George ' s enureu , Ilanoversquare was "bottled up" and brought from the R t « by Emcrs ° » Tcnncnt , the Belfast M . P . emiiw f a ? ew Joint stock comnanv is now in tho pme and unadulterated 1 W .. W . 1 WaW u .. t . u ;« i

      n'fnS ? i » TlllUBB FARiHiscs .-3 fr Lord Olligg . ns ! doesn't thank Sir Robert Pcel ' lor the pioposed grant to Maynooth , not a bit ; th ? I ' remier neetliiot , therefore , hope , by imnroras the beds of the Maynooth students , to bolster up liis popularity in Ireland . For , after all , as his lordship o ^ erves , this miserable grant of £ 20 , 000 , amongst eight mil-10 ns o Roman Catholics , docs not amount to more than thru farthings yearly for each . Heal ] . , Sir Robert , this won't do ; the price you offer ioi- Irish gratitude is exceedingly small-decidcdlv shaUv , \ ra might say . \ Vc qwte agree with my Wj O I tiding Nopatnohc Jnshmaa can afford to be "ratel ' uf for three farthings per annum . —Great Gvn

      Pr asms to D « .-At a meeting of the Repeal Association last week Mr . U' 1 ' oimell said " he W received a present of a snuff-box from Bolton wlu ' cl was stated to be made by an Irish workma- ' riAn the hoof of a Kerry cow . " Query i \[ ., " ' ^ ' " " rather from the Pope ' s bull winch lately a * f ' 11 h Agitator 1—Ml . ' ' * Au ancient name fort he Uiner-. i !

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      Railway AccirasT . -On Wednesday , as the halfpast ten o clock train form Glasgow waseon \ in « along the Kilmarnock Junction , near Fergnsbill , it came in contact with a cow . The engine passed over and dragged it along a short distance . Its death was instantaneous . —National , Distressing Suicide . —On Thursday evening an inquest was held at Long-barn , near Crediton , Devonshire , on the body of a young woman , aged seventeen , named Ann Partridge , who destroyed herself by taking oxalic acid , ^ appeared that Miss Partridge was in the habit of daily going to Crediton for the purpose of learning the millinery business , and that some time since she was grossly assaulted on the road

      by a young man , who is now suffering imprisonment at Exeter for the assault . She appears to have been exceedingly nervous and unhappy since the indecent attack had been made upon her ; and though she never alluded to tlie matter , there can be no doubt that this was the cause of her depression of spirits and unhappy fate . Two letters weve found in hcv room , neither scaled or folded , but , frum the appearance of the ink , they had evidently been written but | a few hours . "I hey were addressed to her sister . I She stated—" The cause of my misfortune was a sad ; broken heart , known to none but myself ; " andconi eluded by asking pardon of God and her parents for ! the weakness she was showing . The jury returned a verdict , " ihat the deceased died from taking oxalic ; acul , administered by herself . "

      Punch On "Sunday Pleasuring."

      PUNCH ON " SUNDAY PLEASURING . "

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      ^ May 31 , 1845 . !

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1317/page/3/